books.google.co.uk - The University of Cambridge's 1702 chair of chemistry is the oldest continuously occupied chair of chemistry in Britain. The lives and work of the 1702 chairholders over the past three hundred years, described here, paint a vivid picture of chemistry as it slowly transformed from the handmaiden of alchemists...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_1702_Chair_of_Chemistry_at_Cambridge.html?id=sT6KLsd94dYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge